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Sponsored links BABYMETAL announced to join Reading and Leeds Festivals 2015 in England that take place on August 28-30! BABYMETAL is the youngest artist to perform at the main stages for the festivals ever, and the only Japanese artist for this y...

While you can certainly find countless restaurants offering a seemingly endless range of cuisines in Japan, if you've spent some time in the country, you may have noticed that options for Mexican food (or at least American-Mexican food) can be som...

Square Enix have been hosting location tests for Dissidia Final Fantasy at arcade centers in Japan, and several key developers in Square Enix producer Ichiro Hazama, Koei Tecmo director Takeo Kujiraoka, and head of Team Ninja Yosuke Hayashi answer...

Perhaps inspired by the 26th anniversary of Ranma 1/2's TV debut on April 15th, or perhaps because he's just been feeling the same nostalgia as Squid Girl author Masahiro Anbe, Blood Lad author and Hamatora original character designer Yuuki Kodama...

Additional poster visual and the flyer for Attack on Titan live action film have revealed on April 17th. All the main casts for the film appear there ; Haruma Miura as Eren, Kiko Mizuhara as Mikasa, Hiroki Hasegawa as Shikishima "humanity's most p...

Shuuichi Shigeno's classic street racing franchise, Initial D, is widely considered to be one of the greatest racing anime of all time, and it seems that the series' main character, Takumi Fujiwara, will be hitting the road for yet another race, w...

Japanese website Goo has recently asked their users: Which anime series from the winter 2015 anime lineup is your favorite? A total of 500 people responded, 250 male and 250 female. Here are the results: 30.

Hayami also stars as Snow White Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Japan opened an official website on Tuesday for voice actress Saori Hayami, announcing that her debut single as a solo artist, "Yasashii Kibou" (Kind Hope), will be the opening the...

Square Enix recently shared the latest look and details on Star Ocean 5, and producer Shuichi Kobayashi and director Hiroshi Ogawa talked more about the game in an interview in this week's issue of Dengeki PlayStation.

Shitaya plays Fate's Sakura Matō Voice actress Noriko Shitaya announced on her blog this Wednesday that she has married a man outside the industry. She describes her partner as someone who is the straight man to her scatterbrain, and also as someo...

'Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring' Manga Getting US Shonen Jump Release Posted by Chris Beveridge April 21, 2015 at 04:34 PM Good news has arrived from the digital Shonen Jump magazine that Viz Media puts out as they've announced ...

Banpresto began streaming a stop-motion animated video for its "One Piece Cry heart ~children's dream~" line of crane game prize figures on Monday. The short recreates the famous scene of [Highlight white text to read spoilers] Ace's death from Ei...

'Ghost in the Shell' Live Action Film Is Happening, Says Scarlett Johansson Posted by Chris Beveridge April 21, 2015 at 12:31 PM Scarlett Johansson While a lot of anime fans aren't willing to believe that the live action Hollywood adaptation of Gh...

JUNO REACTOR, who emerged the vogue of trance music at LONDON in 90's and stays the top of the music scene ever since, announced their performances in Japan since 2013. They are going to bring a remix album, "The Golden Sun Remix," which is a remi...

My wife and I have different tastes in what we watch for television and movies. I enjoy a wide variety of anime, and she enjoys nearly every Victorian and Edwardian England era piece aired. But, what if there were something that combined our dissi...

Sega's Hatsune Miku: Project Diva games have proven to be some of the world's most successful rhythm game titles, and one game in the franchise, Project Diva Arcade, still does not have any home console release, however, as one official Sega surve...

Australian distributor Madman Entertainment have been on quite a roll with their theatrical announcements this year with Parasyte Part 1, When Marnie Was There and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' all scheduled to get a theatrical run in 2015.

Japan-based digital content company Gloczus has announced that legendary romance-and-samurai-and-political-intrigue visual novel Hakuoki is now available for the the first time on iOS and Android today, April 20, 2015, in the United States and Can...

PATRICE TIPOKI - A MUSICAL HEART - COVER ART | Image Source: Press Release Since beginning her career in musicals at the age of 7 in The King & I, Patrice Tipoki has made a number for herself in a number of high profile stage musicals including Th...

"First Ensemble" 'はじめてアンサンブル' (Hajimete Ansanburu) 'Don't Waste My Time': I bet all the people who dismissed this as K-On! 2. 0 are feeling silly right now. The introductions are out of the way, for the most part at least - we're still picking up ...

'Vampire Holmes' Anime Begins Streaming Through Viewster Posted by Chris Beveridge April 21, 2015 at 02:32 PM Viewster teased this a couple of weeks ago alongside several other series that were debuting but now they've got it formalized as Vampire...

Additional 'Million Doll' Anime Casting Revealed Posted by Chris Beveridge April 21, 2015 at 03:25 PM The anime adaptation of the web manga series Million Doll from Ai is moving right along in bringing out more information and now some additional ...

The Oricon physical music sales charts for the week of 4/13-4/19 have been released! Sandaime J Soul Brothers' 16th single starting over, the theme song for their LIVE TOUR 2015 "BLUE PLANET", soared to the top of the singles chart selling 439,067...

Space Create First Impact To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Evangelion franchise, internet cafe chain Space Create will be running a special promotional campaign based on the anime series. During the campaign's first wave, also known as "Fi...

Tokyo's Tokai University recently held a class on the mahou shoujo phenomenon that is Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica in hopes of actively discussing its psychological depth, though its many participants may well have attended simply to gain the benefi...

"After the Phantom Ghost Wagon" & "A Game Between Two Worlds" Saturdays 2:28 pm EST on Funimation Leonardo is kidnapped by alien cannibals with illusory powers, leading to a sick chase sequence. Klaus prevents the end of humanity by betting his li...

Originally thought by many to be premiering in Spring, The 2015 Lupin III series will be premiering in Japan in the Fall of this year. This series is a sequel to the 1984 Lupin III TV series and marks the first time in 30 years for new Lupin III a...

Tweet Pin It Japanese trauma techno-pop group URBANGARDE has released a welcome message for fans preparing for the band's USA debut at A-Kon® 26 in Dallas, TX, including an Akihabara-based Japanese lesson and a pledge to show America the power of ...